"It's an amazing time in politics," she said. "It seems front-and-center right now in our lives, and there's a lot of good, rich material out there from which to glean -- and not parody. But [there are] little morsels that we can take away almost every day, it seems."

As for how she plans to celebrate her third Emmy win, Louis-Dreyfus said she was excited to take her 15-year-old son out on the town.

"It's very exciting that he's here -- he'll go to the Governors Ball with us, and then he'll go home because he has school tomorrow," she explained. "Then my husband and I will go out on the town and live it up a little, for sure."